Biography

Katherine Westerhout earned a B.A. in art/photography from San Francisco State University. Based in Oakland, Westerhout feels that her photographs are related to the language of dreams, and through them she seeks a richer view of the literal world. Westerhout began capturing urban landscapes and abandoned buildings around the San Francisco Bay Area; recently, she has expanded her portfolio to include images from Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Southeast Asia. Since 2002, Westerhout has printed solely using the pigmented inkjet process, which facilitates the creation of large-scale works that allow the viewer to “enter the image” and become connected to the places she captures.  Westerhout has prepared her work exclusively at Electric Works Gallery in San Francisco for the past five years.  Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey; Zukor Art Conservation, Oakland; Alameda County Public Art Collection; and the Zen Center, San Francisco.

This would be the first work by Westerhout to enter SJMA’s permanent collection.  

KQED Spark* segment on Westerhout: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=24336 (SJMA Collections Committee, 2009)

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